The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-08-05

I ttlGAI bat "a ll " . AOi S0e Huelt ON@At az
di or has 50 much cup city Of attention,
| and when that is exhaustei he is restless.
| That ScidenS on the Long Isl nd rail
road some years ago came from the fact
that the brakes were out Of order, and
| when they wanted to stop the train they
| could not stop, and hence the casualty
was terr ic- In all relig-
J motive power and propulsion.
/ We want; at the same time, stout brakes
10 LET down st the right instant. It $ a
disma thing, after hearer has c9mpre-
| hended the whole subject, to hsar man
say:
''Eow to recapitulate," and "a few
| wor Is by Way of application" a2d "onCc
MORE" and "hnaI1y," aud ''now to con-
| Guide"
| Paul preached until midnight, ard
Eutychus got sotind asleep and fell out Of
| widow and broks his neck. Some
would sav:
'Gnod for him."
would rather be sympathetic ike Paul
| ami resus citate him. That scci tent is
| often quoted now in re igious circles - a
warning against somnolence in church.
| tits Just as much a W rning TO min siers
/ agaifst ptolixi y. Eutvchus was wrong
/ in his SOM 6uce, but Paul made a mis-
| take when he kent On tinti midnight He
| ought to havo stopned at eleven O'Clock,
/ ana LUeFe WOulQ nave H6Gn no dCNiuCuif
/ if F9ul might h We gone on to too great
/ length, let all cf us Who are now preach
| ing the Gospel remember that thera is
| limit to religious discourse, or ought to
| be, ana that N our time we have no apos-
tolic power Of miracles.
Napc le0n IN an address Of seven min
utes thrilled his army, and thfillea
| Europe. Chris's sermon on the mount
the mo1el sermon, W 5 less than eighteen
| mi utes long at ordinary mole of de-
| livery. II S not electricity scattered all
| over the sky that strikes. hut electricity
/ gathered in a thu derbo't and hurled, md
| 1T is OF religious truth Scattered over.
| spread out over vast reach Of time, bus
| religious tru h projected in eompac'
| form hat fl shes light upon She soul ano
rives its difference.
! When the religious discourse Of tn
| future arrives IN this Ian a. d in the
Christian Church, the discourse which is
to arouse the word and star l. the ma
| tions al usher in the kingdom, it wi /
be a brief discourse. Hear it all theo-
/ logical studentst all ye just euteTin~
upon religious work; al1 We men a q
women who, in Sabbath-schools ard other
| departments, are toi!ing for Ch ist and
! the salvation of immortaIs. BrevityI
| Brevityl
But / remark also that the religious d IS
| course of the futur6, OF which I speak,
/
| those in these times who speak of pdrs
ular sermon as though III re must be
some hing wrong about it. AS these
critics are dull themselves, the world
gets he impression that a Sc tmo1 is good
| in proportion as it is stupid. Christ was
the most poru ar preacher the world
ever saw, and, considering the small mum
ber of the words population, had the
| largest audiences ever gathered. He
never preached anywhere without max
| ing great sensation. People rushed Gu
in the wilderness to hear him, reckless Of
| the r physical recessit es. So great was
their anxiety to hear Christ that, taking
no food with them, they would hive fam
| ished and starved had not Christ per-
| formed a miracle and fed them.
| Why did so many people take the truth
| at Oh lists hands4 Because thew all un-
| derstood it. He illustrate his ject by
| hen and her chickens, by q
bushel measure, by ha dful OF
| salt, by birds fl ght and by u li'y's
aroma. All the peop knew what he
| meant and they fiockeI to him. Aud
when the religious discourse of the fu p
ure appears it will not be Prince soni; n,
! not Rochesterial, not Andovert II, not
| Middletoniau, but q ivetic-plaiu, prac-
tical, un que, earnest comprehensive Of
all the Woes, wants, sins, sorrows and
| necessities of an auditO Y.
But when that exhor alton or discourse
does come there will be a thousand
| cleaning scimetars to charge on il.
| There are in so many theological semi
| narles professors telling young men how
! to preach, themselves not knowing how,
and / am old that if a young m n in some
! of our theological seminaries says any
| thing quaint, or thri ling, or unique,
| faculty aud students hy at him and set
] him right, and tighten him ont, an :
smooth him down, and chop him of, until
he says every thiag jasJ as verybody
| else says it.
Oh, when the future religious discourse
| of the Christian Church yes, all tie
| Churches of Christ in our great cities
| WI be thropg ged. The worl wants sp T.
itual hep. All who have buried their
dead want comic t. All know them
! Sc YES to be mo tai and to be immo tai
| aid they want to hear about the great
| future. tell you my friends, if the p9o-
pie of our great cities who have hid
| trouble only thouaht they could get
pra tical nd sym pathetic help in the
Christian Church, there would not BE- "A
| street in New Yo k, or oolflyn, or Chi
cagO, or Charleston, or Philadelphia, or
| B stOn VIII ch would be passable on the
| Sabbath day if there were a church on it F;
| for all the people would press to that
asylum Of mercy, that great house Of
comfort AMI consolation.
A mother with dead baby in her arms
came 10 the God Veda and asked to have
her child restore1 to life. The God Veda
said TO he
''You go and get a handful OF mustard
seed from house IN which there h IS b sen
no sorrow, and in which there Is been
if ="
SO the mother went out. and she went
| from house 10 house, and from home to
bome, looking for n place where the e
| had been no sorrow and where here had
| been no death, but she found none. She
| W mt back to the 20 Voda and said:
/ ''My mission is a failure. You see
| h vent brought tn m Ista seed; 1 ant
find ploce where has been no sorrow
and no saith"
"OI,n says the god Veda, "unders and
your sorrows are no worse thln the sor-
rows of others. We all haze our griefs
and al have our heart -breass."
Laugh and the world laughs with you:
Weep and you weep alone
| For the sal old earth must borrow its mirth,
| But has trouble enough Of its own.
We hear "a great deal OF discussion now
! all over the land why people do not go o.
| church. Some say IL is becaus Christian
| ity is dying out, az because people
do not be ieve in the truth Of Gpj's word,
/ and all that. They are IA Sc reasons.
The reason is because our sermons and
exh0rtatious are not interesting, aud
| practical and helpful Some one might
! as we tell tie whole truth on this sub
| jet, aud so / " il tell il. Tne religious
| discourse Of the future, the Gospel ser
I mon 70 eome forth and shake he nations
/ d lift the people out OF darkness. will
be populss sermon, just for the simple
| reason that it vi / meet ths woes aud the
| auxieties Of the people.
There are, ia all denominations, eccle-
sias ic4l mumm es sitting around to frown
| upon the fresh young pupis Of Anne tica,
/ to try to awe them d0wl, 10 cry out:
''Tuti tuti Sens ito - They stand